any tips for 2 colour car decals "ready made"

[Alan Cooper]

Are they to be fitted on the inside of the rear window?

[Frank_Galloway]

nope – bodywork… (rear)

[David Glen]

Overlay the top layer on to the bottom by using reg marks or a light box.
Supply the customer with a felt squeegee to avoid air being trapped around the contour of the top layer.

[David Rogers]

Can you post a jpg of the image – would help see what layers / separations are involved.

Dave

[Frank_Galloway]

quote David Rogers:

Can you post a jpg of the image – would help see what layers / separations are involved.

Dave

sure 😀
and

[David Rogers]

If it’s only a two colour and the quantities are low(ish), I’d be seriously tempted to cut the whole lot in the DARK colour, manually remove the unwanted section & inset the lighter colour by hand (cut them & lift the letters onto the dark backing paper – you can line up with the score lines – then it’s one true layer. More than a couple of dozen though will drive you daft.

Dave

[David Glen]

As David says, however, fiddling about with floppy bits of vinyl letters on to the paper is frustrating.

Cut the whole lot (both colours as one) and remove the "bar" part.
Cut the "bar" parts and apply app tape.
Draw a line along the bottom of the letters "bar".
Now apply the "bar" to the larger graphic by lining up the drawn line with the other letters.
Don’t bother trying to remove the app tape.
Apply app tape over the whole lot and trim to size.
When fitted to the vehicle the smaller piece of app tape is removed after removing the top layer of tape.

[Frank_Galloway]

Excellent walkthroughs lads – thanks v much for your pointers.. all taken on board 😀

[Kenny Ramsey]

I used to do a lot of stickers like this. Haven’t looked back since getting the Gerber 😀

[Nik_W]

I had to do this one (shown below) for a car that is competing in the Cannonball 8000. Although this one is applied to a correx board which will be shown when the car is parked up. I have 2 more to make which I will apply to the car. For this one I cut the whole thing in blue then pulled of the ‘APEX’ letters. I then cut those letters in red and applied them by hand before applying the app tape. As someone else mentioned, you can use the score marks to line them up perfectly.

[Karl Williams]

About 3 years ago I had a three colour job. 3000 of the swines. drove me batty. 👿

[dcurzon]

quote ALAN COOPER:

Are they to be fitted on the inside of the rear window?

ok, out of curiosity, how would you do this?

i’ve only done it once, and i supplied the seperate layers to the customer with reg marks…

[Martin Pearson]

You would do it exactly the same way you would if it were fitted on the outside but just cut everything in reverse.
Problem with putting stuff on the inside is that a lot of the time the car will have some sort of tint on the back windows so it is difficult to see anything from outside.

[Peter Normington]

Quite a few suggestions saying to remove the unwanted colour from the first cut, Why cut it in the first place? it is only making more work?
I wouldn’t bother transferring the vinyl I would just cut two layers and put together 50 or a 100 in one go

Far quicker and more cost effective

Peter

[Derek Poon]

I also prefer cutting the lot out then removing the "waste" and using the score lines to line up, but it all depends on the complexity of the graphic.
If its a simple one and there’s loads to do then I do what Peter suggests but not if the decal is really small as any slight mis-alignment really shows.

[Shane Drew]

quote Del-R:

I also prefer cutting the lot out then removing the “waste” and using the score lines to line up, but it all depends on the complexity of the graphic.
If its a simple one and there’s loads to do then I do what Peter suggests but not if the decal is really small as any slight mis-alignment really shows.

I agree with this.

The score lines can be a good aid, and its not too much material to remove and replace